Ok Rachel. I’m in.
There’s a call to action here so make sure you read the end.
Last week I saw death and destruction. World Vision USA was not the villain or the victim, but the battleground.
The worst thing that I have seen perpetrated by The Church in my lifetime was when they agreed to starve specific individual children to death to force a their neighbours to continue to marginalize a particular group of people. Children whose names they knew, whom they had corresponded with, and whose pictures they had in their homes.
These are not the worst atrocities that have happened in my lifetime. Political regimes have done much worse. Things have happened in North Korea, Somalia and other places abroad. Genocide blazed in Rwanda. Aboriginal children were forcibly taken from their parents on Canada for the purpose of education and civilisation. But The Church has more to answer for. We are the church and we literally preach about love.
I’ve read the gospels a lot lately. Jesus never marginalized and he continually de-marginalized. (Recall the woman at the well, the woman caught in adultery, Zacheus, the sick, the poor, the widows) He never held back grace for compliance. The church’s mistakes are only so heinous because we are the church.
If all we do is blog about this then we’re doomed. We need to talk to the people in our churches. The people that need to know are not the ones reading these blogs. We need to get the message into the churches.
We need to take the gospel to The Church.
I’m in.